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THE    LITTLE    BOOK  OF 

GREENWICH 
VILLAGE 


A  Handbook  of  Information 
concerning  New  York's 
Bohemia,  with  which  is  in- 
corporated a  Map  and  Directory 


'Whatever  else  Bohemia  may  be  it  is 
almost  always  yesterday." 


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Published  by  EGMONT  ARENS  at  the 
"Sign     of     the     Flying  Stag" 
WASHINGTON    SQUARE     EOOK  SHOP 
7     We.t     8th     Street.     New  York 


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Copyright  1918  by 
EGMONT  ARENS 


Yet  we  are  free  who  live  in  Washington 
Square, 

We  dare  to  think  as  up-towncrs  wouldn't 
dare, 

Blazing  our  nights  with  arguments  up- 
roarious; 

What  care  we  for  dull  old  world  cen- 
sorious, 

When  each  is  sure  he'll  fashion  something 
glorious? 

— John  Reed. 


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APOLOGY 

Acknowledgments  are  due  first  of  all  to 
Arthur  Moss,  from  whose  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  Greenwich  Village,  past  and  pres- 
ent, I  have  drawn  generously  in  gathering 
the  material  for*  this  book.  He  has  also 
been  good  enough  to  allow  the  use  of  the 
map,  taken  from  the  portfolio  "Green- 
wich Village,  by  Its  Artists,"  published  by 
him.  My  thanks  also  to  Bobby  Edwards 
for  the  use  of  his  song,  to  John  Reed  for 
his  poem,  and  to  Floyd  Dell  for  extracts 
frbm  the  Liberator.  I  have  not  hesitated 
to  quote  copiously  from  Thomas  A.  Jan- 
vier's In  Old  New  York,  Anna  Alice 
Chapin's  Greenwich  Village,  and  from 
the  booklet  about  Greenwich  Village  pub- 
lished by  the  People's  Institute;  therefore, 
to  the  author's  of  these  books  my  acknowl- 
edgments. I  also  drew  upon  Arthur  B. 
Maurice's  New  York  of  the  Novelists  for 
material. 

I  have  no  doubt  laid  myself  open  to  the 
most  scathing  criticism,  as  regards  the 
names  that  have  been  included,  or  for  that 
matter,  excluded,  frtom  "Who's  Who."  My 
plea  must  be  that  I  did  my  durndest,  and 
angels  kin  do  no  more.  Suggestions  (in 
writing)  for  making  a  second  edition  more 
comprehensive  will  be  welcomed. 

E.  A. 


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A  PAGE  OF  DATES 

1600— PETER  MINUIT,  first  governor  of 
New  York,  after  buying  the  whole 
of  Manhattan  from  the  Indians  for 
$24,  sets  apart  Sappokanican  farm 
for  the  Dutch  West  India  Company. 

1633— WOUTER  VAN  TWILLER,  second 
governor  of  New  York,  appropriates 
Sappokanican  farm  for  his  own  pri- 
vate tobacco  plantation,  and  builds 
the  first  house  erected,  north  of  the 
Fort  Amsterdam  settlement  at  Bos- 
sen  Bouerie. 

1664— BOSSEN  BOUERIE  comes  into 
British  hands  with  the  surrender  of 
Fort  Amsterdam,  and)  is  newly 
dubbed  Greenwich  or  Grinnich. 

1739— FIRST  SMALLPOX  EPIDEMIC  in 
New  York  makes  Greenwich  Village 
famous  as  a  health  resort. 

1744— SIR  (COMMODORE)  PETER 
WARREN  buys  the  Greenwich  Vil- 
large  Farm,  and  builds  a  magnificent 
country  home. 

1865 — OLD  WARREN  Homestead  de- 
stroyed. 

1776-GEORGE  WASHINGTON  makes 
his  headquarters  in  the  Village. 

1787— TRUSTEES  of  Sir  Peter's  estate 
throw  dice  to  partition  the  farm 
amongst  his  heir's. 

1789— POTTER'S  FIELD  established  in 
the  marshes  on  the  present  site  of 
Washington  Square. 

1789 — VICE-PRESIDENT  ADAMS  takes 
up  his  residence  on  Richmond  Hill. 
(Now  Macdougal  Street.) 


A  PAGE  OF  DATES 

1797— AARON  BURR  makes  Richmond 
Hill  his  country  home. 

1800-With  a  blunderbuss  old  BURGHER 
BREVOORT  chases  off  the  sur- 
veyors who  want  to  put  11th  Street 
through  his  estate.  It's  not  been  cut 
through  to  this  day. 

1802— TOM  PAINE,  "infidel,"  comes  to 
Greenwich  Village  to  end  his  days. 

1807— GOVERNOR  MORRIS'  commission- 
ers try  to  fit  the  tangled  streets  of 
Greenwich  Village  into  the  City 
Plans,  but  give  it  up. 

1810— ASA  HULL'S  line  of  stages  con- 
nects New  York  with  Greenwich  Vil- 
lage, and  transports  the  first  "com- 
muters." 

1819— ROSE  BUTLER,  a  negress,  is 
hanged  on  the  gallows  in  Potter's 
Field   (Washington  Square). 

1822— Another  SMALLPOX  EPIDEMIC 
drives  New  Yorkers  to  Greenwich. 

1826— WASHINGTON  MILITARY  PA- 
RADE GROUND  proclaimed  on  site 
of  old  Potter's  Field. 

1830-STONE  CUTTERS'  RIOTS  occur 
during  the  building  of  New  York 
University  Buildings. 

1833 — N.  Y.  Society  adopts  Washing- 
ton Square  North  as  "the"  fashion- 
able residence  district. 

1835— BREVOORT  HOUSE  first  opened. 

1889—  WASHINGTON  ARCH  (designed 
by  Stanford  White)  erected  in  honor 
of  the  Centenary  of  Washington's 
birthday. 

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PICTURESQUE  INDIVIDUALITY 

Greenwich  Village  has  always  been  to 
me  the  most  attractive  portion  of  New 
York.  It  has  the  positive  individuality,  the 
age,  much  of  the  picturesqueness  of  that 
fascinating  region  of  which  the  center  is 
Chatham  Square. 

Greenwich  owes  its  picturesqueness  to 
the  protecting  spirit  of  gface  which  has 
saved  its  streets  from  being  rectangular 
and  its  houses  from  being  all  alike;  and 
which  also  has  preserved  its  many  quaint- 
nesses  and  beauties  of  age — with  such  re- 
sulting blessings  as  the  view  around  the 
curve  in  Grove  Street  toward  St.  Luke's 
Church,  or  under  the  arch  of  trees  where 
Grove  and  Christopher  Streets,  are  mitred 
together  by  the  little  park,  and  the  many 
friendly  old  houses,  which  stand  squarely 
on  their  right  to  be  individual  and  have 
their  own  opinion  of  the  rows  of  modern 
dwellings  all  made  of  precisfely  the  same 
material  cast  in  precisely  the  same  mould. 
— Thomas  A.  Janvier  in  "In  Old  New 
York." 

ODD  CORNERS 

Here  are  some  of  the  odd  corners  in 
Greenwich  Village: 

Washington    Mews:    Off    Fifth  Avenue 

near  8th  Street. 
MacDougal  Alley:   Off  MacDougal  Street 

near1  8th  Street. 
Milligan   Place:    Off  Sixth  Avenue  near 

10th  Street. 
Clinton  Court:    Off  8th  Street  near  Sixth 

Avenue. 

Patchin    Place:    Off   Tenth    Street  and 

Sixth  Avenue. 
Waverly  Place  that  crosses  itself. 
Gay    Street:    Off    Waverly    Place  near 

Sixth  Avenue. 
Minetta  Street  and  Minetta  Lane. 

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IN  RETROSPECTION 

Almost  a  hundred  years  ago  the  fash- 
ionable folk  of  New  York  City  used  to 
drive  two  miles  into  the  country  to 
Greenwich  Village,  along  the  "Inland 
Road,"  traversing  what  is  now  Park  Row, 
the  Bowery  and  Waverly  Place.  The 
drive  took  them  past  a  pauper  graveyard 
often  complained  of  as  an  unsightly  spot, 
unworthy  of  so  genteel  and  fashionable 
a  driveway.  That  graveyard  is  now 
Washington  Square,  one  of  the  most  beau- 
tiful parks  in  New  York  City.  But  mod- 
ern New  York  still  calls  this  territory 
south  of  14th  Street  and  west  of  Fifth 
Avenue  by  the  old  name,  Greenwich 
Village. 

In  1822  an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever 
broke  out  in  New  York  City,  and  a  high 
board  fence  was  stretched  across  the  isl- 
and as  a  quarantine  boundary.  Green- 
wich Village,  always  considered  particu- 
larly healthful,  became  a  refuge  from  the 
fever-stricken  city.  Almost  overnight  the 
tiny  village  "sprouted  into  a  town."  In 
the  haste  of  emergency  building  there  was 
no  time  to  straighten  the  village  lanes  and 
cowpaths  and  these  rapidly  became  streets. 
Later  the  makeshift  houses  were  replaced 
by  substantial  brick  and  stone  structures. 
But  the  twists  and  curves  of  the  streets 
were  never  changed.  And  when,  finally, 
the  city,  growing  to  the  north,  met  and 
annexed  the  village,  the  two  communities 
had  to  fit  together  ac  best  they  could. 

Thus  it  is  that  Fourth  Street  twists  around 
until  it  crosses  Tenth  and  Eleventh  Streets, 
Waverly  Place  actually  crosses  itself,  and 
every  here  and  there  two  or  three  streets 
run  in  together  at  odd  angles,  forming  a 
charming  little  three-cornered  "square"  to 
make  the  chance  passer-by  wonder  if  this 
can  really  be  New  York. 

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NOVELISTS'  PARADISE 

A  number  of  authors,  feeling  the  charm 
of  the  Village,  have  woven  it  into  their 
romances.  Three  of  O.  Henry's  stories 
have  Greenwich  Village  for  background. 
The  phenomenon  of  Waverly  Place  "cross- 
ing itself"  called  forth  this  bit  of  fun 
from  him,  in  "The  Last  Leaf: 

"In  a  little  district  west  of  Washington 
Square  the  streets  have  run  crazy  and 
broken  themselves  into  small  strips  called 
'places/  These  'places'  make  strange 
angles  and  curves.  One  street  crosses  it- 
self a  time  or4  two.  An  artist  once  dis- 
covered a  valuable  possibility  in  this 
street.  Suppose  a  collector  with  a  bill  for 
paint,  paper  and  canvas  should,  in  travers- 
ing this  route,  suddenly  meet  himself 
coming  back,  without  a  cent  having  been 
paid  on  account! 

"So,  to  quaint  old  Greenwich  Village 
the  art  people  soon  came  prowling,  hunt- 
ing for  north  windows  and  eighteenth- 
century  gables  and  Dutch  attics  and  low 
rents." 

O.  Henry  himself  lived  a  long  time  on 
Irving  Place.  He  has  laid  the  scene  of 
the  following  stories,  among  others,  in 
the  Village:  The  Street  With  Three  Ends, 
The  Thing's  the  Play,  The  Unknown 
Quantity,  The  Furnished  Room  and  The 
Defeat  of  the  City. 


NOVELISTS'  PARADISE 

Among  the  novelists  who  have  used 
Greenwich  Village  for  local  color  are: 

Henry  James  in  Washington  Square. 

S.  Merwin  in  The  Trufflers. 

Theodore  Dreiser  in  The  Genius. 

James    Oppenheim    in     The  Nine 
Tenths. 

William  Dean  Howells  in  A  Hazard 
of  New  Fortunes. 

LeRoy  Scott  in  No.  13  Washington 
Square. 

Robert  W.   Chambers  in   The  Out- 
siders. 

David  Graham  Phillips  in  The  Great 
God  Success. 

Thomas    Janvier    in    A  Temporary 
Deadlock. 

F.  Hopkinson  Smith  in  Col.  Carter  of 
Cartersville. 

George  William  Curtis  in  Prue  and  I. 

Arthur  Train,  Owen  Johnson,  Edgar 
Fawcett,  George  Bronson  Howard,  F. 
Marion  Crawford,  Mrs.  Burton  Harrison, 
H.  C.  Bunner,  Frank  R.  Stockton  and 
many  others  have  found  in  the  quaintness 
of  Greenwich  Village  material  for  their 
novels, 
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THE  HOME  OF  CELEBRITIES 

From  the  days  of  old  W outer  Van 
Twiller  until  the  present  day  Greenwich 
Village  has  been  noted  for  the  celebrities 
that  have  made  their  homes  within  its 
boundaries.  There  was,  for!  instance, 
Sir  Peter  Warren,  who  was  something 
of  a  Pirate  in  his  youth,  though  he  did 
settle  down  on  the  Greenwich  estate  in  his 
latest  years.  George  Washington  himself 
had  his  quarters  in  the  village  for  a  time 
during  the  Revolutionary  War.  And  Vice- 
President  Adams  lived  in  a  great  mansion 
on  Richmond  Hill,  which  is  now  Mac- 
Dougal  Street,  where,  too,  Aaron  Burr 
lived. 

Then  there  was  Tom  Paine,  the  "in- 
fidel," who  lived  on  what  is  now  Grove 
Street,  the  last  few  years  of  his  life.  A 
generation  later  Edgar  Allan  Poe  brought 
his  sad  young  wife  to  live  with  him  in  a 
house  near  Sixth  Avenue  and  Waverly 
Place.  Walt  Whitman,  Richard  Watson 
Gilder,  Henry  James,  Richard  Harding 
Davis,  these  are  names  that  are  still 
vividly  in  the  memory.  And  John  Mase- 
field,  perhaps  England's  greatest  living 
poet,  was  once  a  bartender  in  Luke  Con- 
nor's saloon,  where  you  can  go  even  now, 
and  eat  hard-boiled  eggs  with  your  glass 
of  beer. 

Lafcadio  Hearn  lived  two  years  on  Grove 
Street  before  he  went  to  Japan. 

Among  the  many  who  nurse  the  hope 
of  becoming  celebrated  through  the  work 
they  are  doing  in  the  village  today,  there 
are  also  a  few  notables  who  have  already 
emerged.  Theodore  Dreiser,  the  novelist; 
James  Oppenheim,  the  poet;  John  Sloan, 
the  artist,  are  among  the  many  who,  liv- 
ing and  working  in  Greenwich  Village, 
have  already  tasted  the  sweet  cup  of 
success. 

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BOUNDARIES 

As  Hypolyte  Havel  once  put  it,  "Green- 
wich Village  is  a  state  of  mind."  It  has 
no  boundaries  but  the  imagination.  Bo- 
hemia is  as  wide  as  the  world,  and  yet 
so  narrow  that  people  with  the  smallest 
minds  cannot  squeeze  into  its  hallowed 
gates.  The  map  which  we  show  on  an- 
other1 page  shows  the  boundaries  of  the 
old  Warren  farm,  for  the  benefit  of  those 
who  wish  to  be  arbitrary. 


The  boundaries  of  Greenwich  Village  are 
growing  to  embrace  ever  wider  and  wider 
areas.  Recently  the  dramatic  critic  of  the 
New  York  Times  wrote:  "Needless  to  say, 
the  people  of  the  play  are  artists,  presum- 
ably of  Greenwich  Village."  He  was  speak- 
ing of  "Youth,"  by  Miles  Malleson,  as 
played  by  the  Washington  Square  Players, 
the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  England. 


News  comes  from  the  Bronx  that  the 
real  Bohemia  is  now  located  in  a  little 
corner  of  Westchester  County.  A  map  was 
dug  up,  so  the  story  goes,  which  shows 
that  the  original  Greenwich  Village  really 
extended  as  far  north  as  263d  Street  As 
a  result  wide-awake  landlords  are  now 
making  Bronx  tenements  over  into  studios. 


Writeups  of  Greenwich  Village  have  ap- 
peared, to  our  knowledge,  in  the  leading 
papers  of  Topeka,  Kan. ;  Oshkosh,  Wis. ; 
Pnnkin  Con.ers,  Ind.,  and  Hoboken,  N.  J. 
The  Associated  Press  will  soon  find  it  nec- 
essary to  keep  a  staff  correspondent  on 
the  spot 
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THE  ART  THEATRE 

Greenwich  Village  is  the  cradle  of  the 
little  theater  in  the  United  States.  The 
fir'st  "art  theater"  in  America  was  opened 
in  1831,  as  the  Richmond  Hill  Theater,  in 
the  old  mansion  which  had  successively 
housed  Vice-President  Adams  and  Aaron 
Burr.  It  was  located  somewhere  near  the 
present  MacDougal  Street. 

Three-quarters  of  a  century  later  Mac- 
Dougal Street  again  feels  dramatic  stir- 
rings, this  time  in  the  Liberal  Club,  where 
several  irrepressible  playwrights  kept  the 
club  members  amused  by  holding  theatrical 
nights.  In  the  course  of  time  it  became 
very  evident  that  the  public  ought  to  see 
some  of  these  little  plays,  and  thus  it  was 
that  a  group  who  used  to  meet  and  loaf  in 
the  Washington  Square  Book  Shop 
founded  the  Washington  Square  Players. 
Although  this  group,  which  has  since  be- 
come famous,  was  compelled  to  move  up- 
town before  the  first  performance,  it  was 
a  product ^  of  Greenwich  Village,  as  its 
name  implies. 

The  migration  of  the  Washington  Square 
Players  left  an  aching  void  in  the  village, 
which  was  not  long  afterward  filled  by  the 
Provincetown  Players,  a  group  of  artists 
and  writers  who  had  been  summering  to- 
gether at  Provincetown,  Mass.  The  Prov- 
incetown Players  hired  a  house,  also  on 
MacDougal  Street,  and  have  devoted  them- 
selves to  theatrical  experimentation.  Theirs 
is  the  most  productive  playhouse  in 
America,  for  they  have  turned  out  more 
new  American  plays  than  any  other  organi- 
zation. 

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THE  ART  THEATRE 

But  there  were  those  who  believed  that 
Greenwich  Village  ought  to  have  its  own 
more  adequate  theater,  and  so  in  1917  the 
Greenwich  Village  Theater  was  built  on 
Sheridan  Square,  rivaling  in  elegance  any 
theater  in  the  city. 

Now,  too,  we  have  the  "Other  Players" 
and  the  Harry  Kemp  Players,  given  over 
to  individualistic  interpretations. 

PERIODICALS 

Among  the  Village  magazines  which 
have  sprung  up  from  time  to  time  only  to 
die  again  are  the  Ink  Pot,  which  lasted 
only  a  few  issues ;  Le  Dernier  Cri,  which 
printed  three  numbers;  Mercury,  which 
was  unmentionable ;  Very  Weak,  which  was 
pretty  bad;  The  Wow,  which  was  a  joke, 
and  Bruno's  Greenwich  Village,  later  called 
Bruno's  Weekly,  which  helped  to  bring  the 
.first  slummers. 

There  are,  however,  several  that  have 
stood  the  test  of  time,  notably,  the  Pagan, 
a  magazine  for  Eudimonists,  an  illustrated 
monthly  review  of  art  and  literature;  The 
Little  Review,  which  came  to  New  York 
from  Chicago,  devoted  to  Art  (with  a 
capital  Ai)  and  the  Intellect;  The  Green- 
wich Village  Spectator,  which  is  the  vil- 
lage newspaper,  and  The  Quill,  a  maga- 
zine of  Greenwich  Village,  which  reflects 
the  spirit  of  the  village  in  its  illustrations, 
poetry  and  pfose. 

THEY  DID 

They  drew  fat  women  for  the  Masses — 

Denuded,  b.g,  ungainly  lasses — 

How  does  that  help  the  working  classes? 

— Bobby  Edwards. 

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BOHEMIAS  OF  THE  PAST 

The  Lafayette,  or,  as  many  old-timers 
still  like  to  call  it,  "The  Old  Martin,"  was, 
as  John  Reed  has  said,  the  real  link  be- 
tween the  old  Village  and  the  new,  since 
it  was  the  cradle  of  artistic  life  in  New 
York.  "Bohemians,"  he  declared,  "first 
gathered  there  as  Bohemians,  and  the  be- 
ginnings of  what  has  become  America's 
Latin  Quartier  and  Soho  there  first  saw 
the  light  of  day — or  rather  the  light  of 
midnight." 

"The  artists  and  writers  came  to  the 
Hotel  Martin  to  be  inspired  by  Mr.  Mar- 
tin's excellent  food  and  drink.  From  the 
bachelor  quarters  in  the  nearby  square — 
the  Benedick  and  other  studio  houses — 
shabby,  ambitious  young  men  came  in 
droves.  It  was  to  the  Hotel  Martin  that 
the  famous  singers  came — Jean  and 
Edouard  de  Reszke  and  Pol  Plancon  and 
Melba;  the  French  statesman,  Jules  Cam- 
bon  used  to  come,  and  Maurice  Gfau — then 
the  manager  of  the  Metropolitan — and 
Chartran,  the  celebrated  painter,  and  the 
great  Ysaye  and  Bartholdi.  And  Paulus — 
Koster  and  Bid's  first  French  importation 
— to  say  nothing  of  Anna  Held  and  San- 
dow."  * 

There  were  earlier  Bohemias,  too.  Men 
like  Frank  R.  Stockton,  H.  C.  Bunner, 
Lawrence  Hutton  and  Edgar  Fawcett  used 
to  forgather  during  the  early  eighties  in 
the  restaurant  of  the  Grand  Vatel  in 
Bleecker  Street,  and  the  Taverne  Alsaci- 
enne,  where  you  could  get  a  dinner  with 
wine  for  thirty-five  cents.  Then  there  was 
Oscar's  opposite  the  old  Academy  of  De- 
sign, where  wiseacres  shook  their  heads 
and  deplored  the  Bohemia  that  had  gone 
out  years  before  at  Pfaff's  down  on  Broad- 
way. 


*The  Quotations  are  from  "Greenwich 
Village,"  by  Anna  Alice  Chapin. 


THE  DEAR  OLD  VILLAGE 

So  fast  does  time  fly,  and  so  quickly  do 
times  change,  that  I  who  was  but  yester- 
day, as  it  seems,  the  youngest  newcomer  to 
our  Village,  am  now  among  its  elders,  a 
patriarch  among  the  flock  of  lambs  who 
frisk  joyously  in  the  sunlight  of  their 
newly  attained  Village  freedom.  Oh,  I 
have  no  doubt  that  there  are  still  in  exist- 
ence austere  relics  of  the  antediluvian 
period  before  I  came,  ancient  ones  who 
look  upon  me,  if  they  look  at  all,  as  a  late 
intruder — who  are  as  scornful  of  my  claims 
to  Village  citizenship  as  I  am  of  the  pre- 
tensions of  the  latest  generation.  Never- 
theless, if  I  am  not  among  the  aborigines, 
[  am  at  least  of  those  who  came  over,  so 
to  speak,  in  the  Mayflower.  I  was  among 
those  present  at  the  opening  of  the  original 
(and  how  different!)  Polly's  restaurant  on 
MacDougal  Street.  I  helped  get  up  the 
first  Village  dance  ever  given  at  Webster 
Hall.  I  was  a  Villager1,  that  is  to  say,  in 
the  time  before  the  invasion  of  the  bar- 
barians from  Uptown,  before  Pepe  raised 
the  rents — the  Golden  Age. 

In  those  old,  forgotten,  far-off  days,  the 
Village  was  truly  a  village.  Artists  and 
writers  lived  there^  because  the  rents  were 
low,  and  one  could  get  a  floor  of  great 
rooms  with  high  ceilings  and  tall  deep-em- 
brasured windows  (giving  a  true  north- 
light)  for  I  dare  not  say  how  little  money; 
because  the  tangle  of  crooked  little  streets 
shut  out  the  tide  of  traffic,  and  left  a  quiet 
island  where  the  houses  were  as  it  seemed 
they  had  always  been,  where  the  pace  of 
life  slowed  down  a  bit  and  left  time  for 
dreams  and  friendship  and  art  and  love. 
There  were  two  or  three  restaurants  where 
the  cuisine  was  good  and  the  prices  modest, 
and  where  one  knew  everyone  else.  Be- 
cause social  life  was  so  casual  and  easy, 
it  was  possible  to  spend  most  of  one's  time 
working.  And  the  play  was  the  play  of 
artists,  simple  and  ingenuous ;  the  talk  was 
golden,  and  the  loves  were  frank  and  can- 
did.— Floyd  Dell  in  the  Liberator. 
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THE  VILLAGE  EPIC 

By  Bobby  Edwards 

Way  down  South  in  Greenwich  Village, 

There  they  wear  no  fancy  frillage, 
For  the  ladies  of  the  square 

All  wear  smocks  and  bob  their  hair. 
There  they  do  not  think  it  shocking 

To  wear  stencils  for  a  stocking, 
That  saves  the  laundry  bills 

In  Washington  Square. 

Way  down  South  in  Greenwich  Village, 

Where  the  spinsters  come  for  thrillage, 
Where  they  speak  of  "soul  relations" 

With  the  sordid  Slavic  nations, 
'Neath  the  guise  of  feminism, 

Dodging  social  ostracism, 
They  get  away  with  much 

In  Washington  Square. 

Way  down  South  in  Greenwich  Village, 

Where  they  eat  Italian  swillage, 
Where  the  fashion  illustrators 

Flirt  with  interior  decorators, 
There  the  cheap  Bohemian  fakirs 

And  the  boys  from  Wanamaker's 
Gather  "atmosphere," 

In  Washington  Square. 

Way  down  South  in  Greenwich  Village, 

Where  the  brains  amount  to  nillage, 
Where  the  girls  are  unconventional, 

And  the  men  are  unintentional, 
There  the  girls  are  self-supporting, 

There  the  ladies  do  the  courting, 
The  ladies  buy  the  "eats," 

In  Washington  Square. 

— From  the  Song  Book  of  Robert  Edwards 

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THE  VILLAGER'S  LAMENT 

Alas !  Greenwich  Village  that  was,  is 
no  more.  Let  me  recount  the  tragic  de- 
tails of  its  debacle.  In  the  first  place 
(doubtless  the  whole  thing  was  a  plot  of 
the  real-estate  agents),  the  rents  were 
raised.  Fabulous  prices  were  charged  for 
anything  with  a  roof  over  it,  so  that  only 
a  few  holes  and  corners,  desperately  clung 
to,  were  left  to  the  original  inhabitants. 
Then,  as  the  invaders  came  to  stare,  the 
Villagers  fled  from  one  restaurant  to  an- 
other, leaving  each  new  one  in  rage  and 
despair  as  it  was  discovered  by  the  enemy. 
Then  the  show-places,  with  imbecile  names, 
began  to  be  opened— "picturesque"  (i.  e., 
insanitary)  places  where  the  Uptowners 
pay  two  dollars  for  a  bad  sandwich  and  a 
thimbleful  of  coffee,  and  look  at  each  other 
and  think  they  are  seeing  life.  Ah!  how 
many  honest  bootblack  stands  and  coal- 
holes have  been  displaced  to  make  room 
for1  these  new  Coney  Island  sideshows !  A 
new  one  yawns  at  one's  feet  every  day. 
Thither,  allured  by  the  hope  of  finding 
something  truly  bohemian  (i.  e.,  naughty), 
the  sad  Uptowner  repairs,  bringing  his 
vulgarity,  his  bad  manners,  and  his  money. 
And  as  in  a  looking  glass  he  sees  himself, 
for  that  is  all  there  is  to  see.  The  Village 
is  not  there.  It  still  exists,  as  the  Christian 
sect  existed  in  the  Catacombs  during  the 
darkest  days  of  the  Roman  persecution. 
But  his  search  for  it  is  in  vain.  Let  him 
go  back  to  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-sixth 
Street.  He  will  never  find  it.— Floyd  Dell 
in  the  Liberator. 
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PHASES 

"In  my  experience,"  said  the  writing 
man  of  sententious  sayings,  "there  have 
been  a  dozen  'villages.'  The  Village 
changes  are  like  the  waves  of  the  sea!" 

"He  mentioned  various  phases  which 
Greenwich  Village  had  known.  The  studio- 
and-poverty  Bohemian  epoch,  the  labor  and 
anarchy  era,  the  futurist  fad,  the  "free 
love"  cult,  the  Bohemian  and  masquerade 
ball  period,  the  psychoanalysis  craze;  the 
tea-shop  epidemic,  the  arts-and-crafts  ob- 
session, the  play-acting  mania;  and  other 
violent  and  more  or  less  transient  enthu- 
siasms."— Anna  Alice  Chapin  in  "Greenwich 
Village/' 


GONE  !  ?  ! 

BUT  NOT  FORGOT 

Time  was  when  Greenwich  Village 
rivalled  Coney  Island  for  the  number  and 
variety  of  its  sideshows.  Among  the  "tea- 
rooms," which  in  their  brief  day  varied 
from  the  notorious  to  the  innocuous,  are 
the  following  late  lamented: 

The  Purple  Pup,  The  Vermilion  Hound, 
The  Saraband,  The  Klicket,  The  Camou- 
flage, Don  Dickerman's  Pirates'  Den,  The 
Will-o'-the-Wisp,  the  Aladdin  Shop,  The 
Three  Thieves,  The  Wigwam,  The  Open 
Door,  Romany  Marie's,  The  Jewel  Box, 
The  Early  Bird  Breakfast  Room,  The 
Mouse  Trap,  The  Tea  Wagon,  The  Roman 
Chariot,  The  Village  Art  Gallery,,  etc., 
etc.,  etc. 


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OVERHEARD 

My  dear,  look  at  the  man  that  just  came 
m — the  one  with  the  long  hair.  Isn't  he 
intrusting ?  *  *  *  Doesn't  he  look  intel- 
lectual? What  does  he  do?  Gives  dances 
at  Webster  Hall.  *  *  *  Oh,  really!  *  *  * 
Is  it  really  tfue  that  Mr.  Gallant  uses  hair 
restorer  on  his  chin?  *  *  *  Are  they 
married,   or   are   they  just — you  know? 

*  *  *  What  is  a  Crump  anyhow?  An  in- 
tellectual doughnut.  *  *  *  So  many  really 
wtorth-while  people  down  here,  you  know. 
I  think  I'll  open  a  tearoom  in  the  Village. 

*  *  *  Who  is  that  with  the  thing  sticking 
out  from  under  his  coat?  Really?  *  *  * 
Does  he  make  them  himself?  *  *  *  Does 
Mr.  Freud  live  in  the  Village?  I've  heard 
that  these  psycho-what-you-callems  some- 
times lose  their  minds  altogether.  *  *  *  Is 
that  man  with  the  pointed  mustache  the 
one  they  call  Polly?  How  does  he  do  it? 
Rubber'  cement?  Really,  now,  I  think 
you're  joking.  *  *  *  Tell  me  about  those 
revels  at  Webster  Hall.  A.;re  they  really 
so  awful?     I  suppose  the  costumes  

*  *  *  What's  the  worst  thing  you  ever 
saw?  *  *  *  Yes.  There's  another  Village 
guide  now.  But  she  didn't  get  hers  pat- 
ented. *  *  *  I'm  sorry  I  bobbed  my  hair. 
It's  getting  to  be  so  common.  *  *  *  Wish 
that  nigger'd  stop  his  noise.  *  *  *  This  is 
not   exciting.     I   thought    Bohemia  was. 

*  *  *  The  Village  landlord.  If  you  peep 
(Pepe)  he'll  raise  your  rent.  *  *  *  Harry 
had  some  vodka.     It's  glorious.  Makes 

you  feel  so         Who  does  she  live  with 

now?  *  *  *  Waiter!  If  I  come  to-morrow 
evening  do  you  think  you'll  have  that  soup 
ready  by  thtn? — Hegara  in  the  Quill. 


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WHO'S  WHO 

VINCENT  PEPE,  the  Village  Landlord. 

PA  DUNBAR,  the  Village  Preacher, 
who  wrote  that  book  of  travels, 

DAVE  CUMMINGS,  the  Village  Bach- 
elor. 

DJUNA  BARNES,  our  own  Aubrey 
Beardsley. 

SIDNEY  CARLISLE,  the  young  shep- 
herd, artist. 

BARNEY  GALLANT,  late  press-agent 
to  Carranza,  impresario  of  the  Greenwich 
Village  Theater. 

CHRISTINE,  who  serves  eats  for  the 
Provincetown  Players. 

ROSE  O'NEILL,  artist-inventor  of  the 
Kewpie. 

HAL  LAPHAM,  painter,  singer,  stage- 
carpenter. 

SONIA,  the  cigarette  girl. 

ADELE,  the  Village  Guide  (Patented). 

ARTHUR  REED,  decorator,  musician. 

POLLY,  herself,  of  Polly's. 

GEORGE  BAKER,  who  turned  Polly's 
into  the  Greenwich  Village  Inn. 

BOBBY  EDWARDS,  the  village  trouba- 
dour, who  makes  ukeleles,  paints,  sculps, 
writes  music  and  poetry. 

HYPOLITE  HAVEL,  sage  and  philoso- 
pher; a  modern  OMAR. 

PEGGY  JOHNS,  who  broke  into  Vanity 
Fair. 

GRACE  GODWIN,  the  Village  Mother. 
CLARA  TICE,  noted  for  her  art  and 
her  ball  costumes. 


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WHO'S  WHO 

BILL  REINEKE,  who  has  art  and  a 
familv. 

PEGGY  O'NEILL,  who  is  just  Peggy. 

ETHEL  PLUMMER,  who  does  covers 
for  Vanitv  Fair. 

JIG  COOK,  boss  of  the  Provincetown 
outfit. 

SUSAN  GLASPELL,  who  writes  all  the 
best  plays. 

JACK  McGRATH,  officially  crowned 
King  of  the  Village. 

TWENTY-ONE  EAST  FIFTEENTH 
STREET,  most  famous  house  in  the  vil- 
lage. 

LEW  PARRISH,  wrigglev-line  artist. 

THE  BEAUTIFUL  STRUNSKY  SIS- 
TERS, at  the  Cafeteria. 

THE  OLD  MASSES  CROWD,  Max 
Eastman,  Floyd  Dell,  Jack  Reed,  Maurice 
Becker,  John  Sloan,  Art  Young,  etc. 

ARTHUR  MOSS,  who  arrived  in  the  vil- 
lage Nov.  12,  1887.    That's  right! 


PAST  PERFORMERS 

JOE  TATTERSDILL,  Editor  of  the 
notorious  "Mercury,"  dancing  partner  of 
Ruth  St.  Denis,  and  champion  speed  lino- 
typer. 

BOB  BROWN,  who  holds  record  for 
number  of  village  dances  at  Webster  Hall. 

ALLEN  NORTON,  editor  and  owner  of 
"Rogue." 

FRANK  SHAY,  who  finally  got  married. 

ALBERT  AND  CHAS.  BONI,  who  used 
to  own  the  Bookshop. 

GUIDO  BRUNO,  who  advertised  the 
village. 

DON   DICKERMAN,    who   made  too 
much  noise  fof  the  neighbors. 
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WHO'S  ALSO  WHO 


LIN,  formerly  Linn,  of  Lin's. 
JOAN,  who  wins  all  the  prizes  at  Web- 
ster Hall. 

J.  W.  FRAZER,  who  designed  the 
Buffalo  nickel. 

MARY  CAROLINE  DAVIES,  cow-girl, 
broncho-buster  and  poetess. 

GLEN  COLEMAN,  who  paints. 

HARRY  KEMP,  the  Kansas  poet,  who 
goes  bareheaded. 

BERNARD  SEXTON,  the  Grey  Wolf, 
story  teller  and  poet. 

ZOE  BECKLEY,  who  has  interviewed 
everybody  but  the  Kaiser. 

REV.  PERCY  STICKNEY  GRANT, 
one  of  our  staunchest  Bohemians. 

HENRIETTA  RODMAN,  who  bearded 
the  Board  of  Education. 

JO  DAVIDSON,  who  has  his  own  way 
of  wielding  the  scalpel. 

JOHN  BARRYMORE,  known  along 
Broadway. 

THE  VILLAGE  OWL,  which  hoots  at 
everything  it  can't  understand. 

MANY  ANOTHER,  who  might  have 
been  mentioned  if  there  were  more  room. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 

A  NIGHT  IN  BOHEMIA,  by  John 
Reed. 

GREENWICH  VILLAGE,  by  Anna 
Alice  Chapin. 

IN  OLD  NEW  YORK,  by  Thomas  A. 
Janvier. 

WASHINGTON  SQUARE,  Henry 
James. 

THE  NEW  YORK  OF  THE  NOVEL- 
ISTS, by  Arthur  Bartlett  Maurice. 

These  books  may  be  obtained  at  the 
Washington  Square  Book  Shop,  17  West 
8th  St.,  N.  Y.  C. 

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THE  BOOK  SHOP 

Joyce  Kilmer,  the  poet,  once  said:  "If 
Greenwich  Village  is  the  heart  of  literary 
America,  then  the  Washington  Square 
Book  Shop  must  be  the  soul,"  or  some- 
thing very  near  that.  He  was  referring 
to  the  old  book  shop,  that  was  located  over 
the  Liberal  Qub  rooms,  where  forgathered 
that  group  of  writers,  artists  and  enthu- 
siasts who  later  formed  themselves  into  the 
Washington  Square  Players.  Indeed,  the 
first  official  performance  of  that  gifted 
company  was  held  in  the  bookshop  itself. 
It  was  the  moment's  inspiration  of  Bobby 
Jones,  who  has  since  won  fame  as  a 
scenic  artist,  to  put  on  Lord  Dunsany's 
"The  Glittering  Gates"  with  impromptu 
actors  and  scenery. 

Since  the  book  shop  has  moved  to  its 
present  location,  at  17  West  8th  Street,  un- 
der the  Sign  of  the  Flying  Stag,  it  has 
become  more  than  ever  a  gathering  place 
for  those  who  have  to  do  with  the  writing 
rather  than  the  reading  of  books.  The 
startling  phenomena  of  an  author  buying 
his  own  works  has  become  so  common  at 
the  W.  S.  B.  S.  as  to  attract  no  attention 
whatsoever.  Books  that  are  made  and 
books  in  the  making  are  the  main  topics 
of  conversation  among  the  members  of 
this  ever  changing  company.  Of  course, 
books  are  sold  too,  but  they  are  handled 
in  an  atmosphere  that  betokens  an  appre- 
ciation of  their  contents.  Lately  some  in- 
teresting publications  have  issued  from  the 
bookshop,  -mong  which  the  series  of  Fly- 
ing Stag  Plays,  for  the  Little  Theatre, 
are  notable. 
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DIRECTORY 

If  you're  not  in  the  Directory,  you're  not  in 
the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 

ART  GIFT  SHOPS 

LITTLE  RUSSIA,  244  Thompson  Street.  Just 
off  Washington  Square  Fania  Mindell  has  ere 
ated  a  shop  where  the  pure  Russian  atmosphere 
prevails.  Russian  copper  and  brass  articles. 
See  your  ideas  incorporated  into  a  new  blouse 
designed  while  you  wait.  Hats,  handbags, 
scarfs,  may  be  had,  embroidered  in  true  Rus- 
sian fashion.  Indeed  these  Russian  embroi- 
deries are  very  fashionable  just  now,  and  add 
a  touch  of  individuality  to  the  costume. 

SONIA  ART  CIGARETTES,  19  West  8th  St., 
near  Washington  Square.  If  you  have  not 
smoked  Sonia's  Art  Cigarettes,  it  is  like — 

"The  sky  without  stars, 

The  dance  without  music, 

Or  summer  without  sunshine, 

Or  like  life  without  love." 
Sold  at  all  the  Village  shops  and  restaurants, 
and  by  mail  in  boxes  of  ten,  fifty  and  one 
hundred.     Phone   Stuyvesant  1880. 

THE  VILLAGE  STORE  &  TEA  ROOM,  60 

Washington  Square  So.  At  the  end  of  the 
bus  line.  Your  gift  problem  solved  in  the  rest- 
ful simplicity  of  this  beautiful  shop.  Head- 
quarters for  American  Potteries.  Sole  Agents 
for  the  famous  American  "Jugtown"  Orange 
Pottery.  Special  exhibitions  of  etchings,  wood- 
blocks, photographs,  weaving,  pottery  and 
smocks.  Open  from  10  to  6.  Phone  Spring 
5848. 

WASHINGTON   SQUARE   BOOK   SHOP,  17 

West  8th  Street.  Books  make  the  best  gifts 
for  birthday,  graduation,  or  holiday  time.  We 
specialize  in  Plays  and  Books  of  the  Little 
Theatre,  the  Present  Day  Poets,  Modern  Fic- 
tion that  is  also  Literature,  the  Russian 
Translations,  and  Imported  Books  of  Art,  and 
Rare  Color  Prints.  We  have  a  complete  shelf 
of  Psychoanalysis  and  the  Psychology  of  Sex. 
Our  Children's  Books  are  artistic  as  well  as 
amusing.  We  carry  also  Magazines  of  Liter- 
ature and  Art  from  Europe  and  America 
Open  evenings.     Phone  Stuyvesant  717. 

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DIRECTORY 

If  you're  not  in  the  Directory,  you're  not  in 
the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
r.ext  edition. 

ART  GIFT  SHOPS 

THE  DEVONSHIRE  LACE  SHOP.  60  Wash- 
ington Square.  Laces  designed  and  made  by 
Marion  Powys  of  England.  Expert  mending 
and   reconstruction   of   old  laces. 

WILLICH  EMBROIDERY  STUDIOS,  57  West 
11th  St.  Embroideries  for  Interior  Decorators 
and  dresses  in  modern  designs.  Phone  4366 
Farragut. 

THE  PAINT  BOX  ART  GALLERY,  150  West 
4th  St.  Exhibitions  of  Paintings  by  Village 
Artists.   

Arts  and  Crafts  Import  Co.,  25  West  8th  St. 

Daisy  Thompson's  Shop,  63  Washington  Sq.  So. 

Millia    Davenport.    143    West   4th   St.  Smocks. 

Lin's  Shop,  171  West  4th  St. 

The  Treasure  Box,  7  Sheridan  Square. 

ARTISTS  &  DECORATORS 

HUGO  GELLERT,  11  East  14th  Street.  Posters. 

Decorations.     Phone  3699  Stuyvesant. 
Anton  Hellman,  17  West  8th  Street.  Interiors. 
Maud    Langtree,    59    Washington    Square  So. 

Photographs. 

(Artists  and  decorators  who  wish  to  appear  in 
the  second  edition  of  the  Directory  should 
communicate  with  the  publisher.) 

ART  PHOTOGRAPHS 

JESSIE  TARBOX  BEALLS.  71  West  23rd  St. 
The  official  photographer  for  Greenwich  Village. 
Her  post  cards  of  New  York  and  Boston  on 
sale  at  the  shops'.  But  it  is  in  the  special  field 
of  home  portraiture  that  Miss  Bealls  has  won 
her  highest  recognition.  Appointments  may  be 
made  by  mail,  or  phoning  2271  Gramercy. 

AUTHOR'S  STENOGRAPHER 

ROSE  RICHMAN.  Hotel  Brevoort.  Fifth  Avenue 
at  8th  St.,  As  the  official  author's  stenographer 
of  Greenwich  Village,  she  holds  the  record  for 
number  of  stories  she  has  written.  She  makes 
a  specialty  of  authors'  manuscripts,  plays, 
short  stories,  novels,  etc.,  by  dictation  or  from 
longhand.  Business  letters,  multigraphing  and 
all  classes  of  public  stenography.  Special  ap- 
pointment by  phoning  Stuyvesant  3620  or 
4674. 

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DIRECTORY 

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the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 

BATIK  ARTIST 

ALICE  MUTH,  Studio,  12  East  8th  St.  An 
artist  who  has  discovered  a  new  perfection  in 
batik  designing  as  applied  to  modern  dress 
and  decoration.  Individually  designed  batik 
silks  in  tea  gowns,  lingerie,  evening  wraps  and 
stage  costuming  are  her  specialties.  Let  Miss 
Muth  bring  individuality  into  your  wardrobe, 
or  your  home.  Interior  decorations.  Lamp 
shades,  vases,  and  landscapes  on  view  at  her 
studio.    Phone  Spring  63. 


BOOKS 

SCHULTE'S  BOOK  STORE,  80  and  82  Fourth 
Ave.  As  far  back  as  the  earliest  Bohemians 
can  remember,  Schulte's  has  been  the  Mecca 
of  New  York's  bibliophiles.  Here  is  carried 
the  most  complete  stock  of  Out-of-Print  books 
in  New  York.  Here,  also,  you  can  sell  for 
cash,  the  books  you've  finished  with.  Schulte 
is  always  on  the  market  for  good  books  to  re- 
plenish his  large  and  constantly  changing  stock. 
Phone  2550  Stuyvesant. 


WASHINGTON   SQUARE  BOOK   SHOP,  17 

West  8th  St. 


CLUBS 

Civic  Club,  14  West  12th  St.    Farragut  4797. 
Liberal  Club,  137  MacDougal  St.    Spring  9577. 
The  Penguin  Gallery,  8  East  15th  St.  Stuyvesant 
3684. 

People's  House,  7  East  15th  St.    Rand  Socialist 
School. 

Salmagundi  Club,  47  Fifth  Ave.  (Artists).  Stuy. 
5870. 

Whitney  Studio  Club,  147  West  4th  St.  Spring 
7116. 


NEIGHBORHOOD  ASSOCIATIONS 

Greenwich    Village    Improvement    Society,  Dr. 

Lawrence  Purcell,  Secretary,  66  Morton  Street. 
Washington    Square   Association,    11  Broadway, 

Bowling  Green  8590. 

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DIRECTORY 

//  you're  not  in  the  Directory,  you're  not  in 
the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 

HOTELS 

The  Brevoort,  8th  Street  &  7th  Ave.  Stuyvesant 
4674. 

The  Earle.  103  Waverly  Place.     Spring  8456. 
Hotel  Holley,  36  Washington  Sq.     Spring  3309. 
Cafe  Lafayette,  University  PI.  &  9th  St.  Stuy- 
4420. 

Marlton  Hotel,  3  West  8th  Street.    Stuy.  5482. 

PERIODICALS 

THE  QUILL — A  Magazine  of  Greenwich  Village. 
10  cents  a  copy;  $1.00  a  year.  Published 
monthly  by  Arthur  H.  Moss,  at  174  West  4th 
Street.  Poetry,  drawings,  short  stories,  gossip. 
Visit  the  Quill  Shop,  open  daily  from  2  to 
7  P.  M.  Books,  Prints,  Periodicals.  Telephone 
Spring  3951. 

THE  PAGAN — A  Magazine  for  Eudaemonists. 
15  cents  a  copy — One  dollar  fifty  a  year.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Pagan  Publishing  Company  at 
7  East  15th  St.  Joseph  Kling,  Editor.  A 
Magazine  that  seeks  to  add  to  the  Joy  of 
Life.  Its  stories,  poems,  drawings  and  etch- 
ings are  done  by  men  and  women  of  to-day, 
not  by  those  of  yesterday.  If  you're  a  by- 
goner,  The  Pagan  will  make  you  very  mad. 
If  you're  a  comer,  it'll  make  you  glad. 

The  Liberator,  34  Union  Square.     15c  a  copy. 

The  Greenwich  Village  Spectator.    5  cents. 

The  Little  Review,  24  West  16th  St.    25  cents. 

PRINTER 

LEONARD  P.  KUHL,  32  Union  Square.  He 
printed  this  directory.  Nuff  said.  Phone  735 
Stuyvesant. 

REAL  ESTATE 

PEPE  &  BRO.,  40  Washington  Square  So.  Rent- 
ing agency.  Studios,  apartments,  etc.  Phone 
8347  Spring. 

SETTLEMENTS 

Casa  Maria,  ?51  West  14th  St.  (Spanish  Women.) 
Doe  Ye  Nexte  Thynge  Society,  12  Leroy  Street. 
Greenwich  House,  27  Barrow  Street. 
Richmond  Hill  House,  28  MacDougal  Street. 
Spring  Street  Neighborhood  House,  24  Spring  St 
Washington  Souare  Home  for  Friendless  Girls 
9  West  8th  St. 

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the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 


RESTAURANTS  &  TEA  ROOMS 

GRACE  GODWIN'S  GARRET  &  COFFEE 
HOUSE,  58  Washington  Square  So.  Nobody 
should  be  lonesome  in  New  York,  because 
Grace  Godwin  invites  real  people  to  eat  at 
the  garret  and  to  make  themselves  at  home, 
whether  it  be  for  late  breakfast,  afternoon  tea, 
or  after  dinner  coffee.  Grace's  home  made 
sweets  are  good  any  time  of  day.  At  the  end 
of  the  bus  line,  looking  out  over  Washington 
Square,  it's  the  one  place  to  be  happy  in. 

THE  GREEN  GATE,  11  East  8th  Street.  An 
eating  pace  with  a  distinctive  atmosphere.  The 
decorations  are  in  excellent  taste,  quiet  and 
reposeful.  A  luxurious  lounging  and  reading 
room  for  the  use  of  patrons  is  a  popular  feature, 
and  the  outdoor  dining-room  is  an  added  sum- 
mertime attraction.  The  cuisine  is  excellent, 
and  prices  reasonable.  Breakfast,  luncheon  and 
dinner  served,  a  la  carte  and  table  d'hote. 
Virginia  waffles  a  specialty. 

THE  HEARTHSTONE,  174  West  4th  St.  In 
a  cozy  room,  before  two  large  old-fashioned 
fire-places  that  warm  it  in  winter  and  cool  it 
in  summer,  you  sit  down  to  a  well  served  and 
well  cooked  meal  amid  reposeful  surroundings. 
The  restful  atmosphere,  the  quiet  hospitality, 
and  the  good  food  combine  to  make  this  an 
ideal  eating  place.  Table  d'lh'ote  or  a  la  carte 
at  all  meals.  Luncheon  50c.  Afternoon  Tea, 
and  Dinner  75c. 

YE  PIG  &  WHISTLE  INN,  175  West  4th  St. 
A  quaint  little  inn  with  daintily  curtained  win- 
dows where  luncheon,  afternoon-tea  and  din- 
ner are  served.  The  walls  are  lined  with  old 
Dickens  prints;  one  greets  Sam  Weller,  Sarah 
Gamp,  Pecksniff,  Mrs.  Bardell,  Sally  Brass  and 
many  others  with  the  same  cordiality  one  feels 
for  old  friends.  One  of  the  popular  places 
for  artists,  writers  and  thespians.  Table  d'hote 
luncheon  and  dinner  at  popular  prices. 

GONFARONE,  179  MacDougal  St.  Table 
d'hote    luncheon    and   dinner   served.  Music. 

PAUL  &  JOE'S,  62  West  9th  St.  French-Italian 
table  d'hote  with  wine.     Outdoor  dining  room 

THE  MAD  HATTER,  150  West  4th  St.  After- 
noon tea  and  afternoon  coffee.  Open  from  3 
to  11  P.  M. 

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the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 

RESTAURANTS  &  TEA  ROOMS 

THE  SAMOVAR,  148  West  4th  St.  Through 
the  alley,  up  the  stairs  and  over  the  roof  lands 
you  in  the  very  heart  of  Greenwich  Villas 
and  very  close  to  its  soul,  too.  Up  in  this 
cool  room,  with  its  window  boxes  abloom  with 
flowers,  come  kindred  spirits  to  partake  of  the 
excellent  food  that  is  served  so  reasonably. 
Both  a  la  carte  and  table  d'hote  luncheon  and 
dinner  served. 
Phone  Spring  7927. 

THREE  STEPS  DOWN  (Cafeteria),  19  West 
8th  St.  One  of  the  most  popular  gathering 
places  for  villagers  and  those  who  appreciate 
well-cooked  food  and  a  congenial  atmosphere. 
The  "serve  yourself"  system  is  what  makes 
the  prices  so  low.  Then  there  is  the  outdoor 
umbrella  garden,  where  great  orange  umbrellas 
spread  over  the  tables  like  giant  mushrooms. 
Table  service  upstairs.  Banquet  rooms.  Phone 
Stuyvesant  1880. 

THE  DRAGON  FLY  has  alighted  on  the  Sam- 
ovar roof  (148  West  4th  Street)  with  refresh- 
ments on  his  wings. 

PUSS  IN  BOOTS.  57  West  10th  St.  Table 
d'hote  luncheon  and  dinner.  The  Village's 
favorite  eating  place. 


Black  Cat,  557  West  Broadway. 

Broad's  Chop  House,  53  West  3rd  St. 

The  Checker  Box,  18  Barrow  Street. 

The  Crumperie,  6l/2   Sheridan  Square. 

Enrico  &  Plagieri,  64  West  11th  St.  Italian. 

French  Pastrv  Shop.  144  Sixth  Ave. 

Galotti's.  64  West  10th  St.  Italian. 

The  Green  Witch,  49  East   10th  St. 

Greenwich  Village  Mill,  47  West  3rd  St.  Italian. 

Joan's.     Dancing.     Tea.     54  Sixth  Ave. 

The   Red   Lion.   233   Thompson   St.  Italian. 

Renganeschi,  139  West  10th  St.  Italian. 

The  Russian  Tea  Room,  239  West  4th  St 

The  Silhouette  Shop,  144  West  4th  St. 

Strunky's  Cafeteria,  19  West  8th  St. 

The  Village  Kitchen.  53  Greenwich  Ave. 

Washington  Square  Restaurant,  19  West  8th  St 


DIRECTORY 

If  you're  not  in  the  Directory,  you're  not  in 
the  Village.  See  that  you're  included  in  the 
next  edition. 

THEATRES 
GREENWICH  VILLAGE  THEATRE,  4th  St. 

&  Seventh  Ave.  To  establish  here  in  this 
corner  of  Manhattan, — so  long  a  place  of  activ- 
ity in  the  arts — a  home  for  the  art  of  the 
theatre;  to  gather  together  a  company  of  play- 
ers and  craftsmen  dedicated  to  fine  endeavor; 
to  give  the  choicest  plays,  ancient  or  modern, 
in  a  simple  and  dignified  presentation, — these 
are  the  aims  of  those  who  have  so  suc- 
cessfully launched  this  art  theatre.  Phone 
Spring  6409. 

PROVINCETOWN  PLAYERS,  139  MacDougal 
Street. 

THE  MARIONETTE  THEATRE,  49  Vandam 
St.  New  York's  Theatrical  Novelty — Remo 
Bufano,  Director. 


A  convenient  route  for  those  who  want 
to  take  in  the  points  of  interest  in  the 
village  is  suggested  herewith.  Begin  at  the 
Washington  Square  Book  Shop,  on  Eighth 
Street  just  west  of  Fifth  Avenue,  thence 
over  to  MacDougal  Street,  where  there  is 
a  peek  into  MacDougal  Alley,  then  south, 
to  the  Square.  Cut  across  diagonally  to 
the  fountain,  and  then  visit  the  shops  along 
Washington  Square  South  and  Thompson 
Street.  Now  turn  west  and  visit  the  shops 
and  tea  rooms  on  Fourth  Street,  crossing 
on  over  Sixth  Avenue,  until  you  arrive 
at  Sheridan  Square,  which  is  lined  with 
shops,  and  where  the  Greenwich  Village 
Theatre  is  located.  Here  you  will  undoubt- 
edly lose  yourself  and  will  wonder  how 
this  can  be  New  York,  for  the  streets  run 
in  every  direction  but  toward  home.  But 
no  matter  which  way  you  turn,  you'll  find 
something  interesting,  so  why  worry? 

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